Narrative Text The Labourer and the Nightingale
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The Labourer and the Nightingale
A Labourer lay listening to a Nightingale’s song throughout the summer night. So pleased was he with it that the next night he set a trap for it and captured it. “Now that I have caught thee,” he cried, “thou shalt always sing to me.”
“We Nightingales never sing in a cage.” said the bird.
“Then I’ll eat thee.” said the Labourer. “I have always heard say that a nightingale on toast is dainty morsel.”
“Nay, kill me not,” said the Nightingale; “but let me free, and I’ll tell thee three things far better worth than my poor body.”
The Labourer let him loose, and he flew up to a branch of a tree and said:
“Never believe a captive’s promise; that’s one thing. Then again: Keep what you have. And third piece of advice is: Sorrow not over what is lost forever.”
Then the song-bird flew away.
Taken from: http://www.aesops-fables.org.uk
The possibly new vocabulary for you:
1. labourer: someone whose job involves hard physical work, for example building work
2. nightingale: a small bird known for the beautiful way that it sings at night
3. trap: a piece of equipment used for catching animals
4. capture: to catch someone so that they become your prisoner
5. thee: an old word meaning ‘you‘ that was used for talking or writing to one person
6. toast: sliced bread browned on both sides by exposure to radiant heat, such as a grill or fire
7. dainty: delicately small and pretty
8. morsel: a small piece or amount of food; a mouthful
9. Nay: an old word meaning ‘no‘ or ‘not‘
10. loose: not firmly or tightly fixed in place; detached or able to be detached
11. captive: kept as a prisoner
12. thou: an old word meaning ‘you‘, in the singular, used as the subject of a sentence
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